

The player may recruit up to eighteen mercenaries (commonly shortened to "mercs"), who can be formed into teams, with a maximum of six mercenaries per team. From here, the player can also access the game's email and internet functions, allowing the player to receive emails from characters in the game, buy weapons, equipment, and hire and fire mercenaries. This is the strategic side of the game, as the player directs their forces, and controls the progress of time, which may be sped up or paused. It displays Arulco in a square grid, its terrain and cities, and the forces deployed by the enemy and the player. Capturing cities opens the facilities they house. Miguel guides the player to the city of Drassen, though the cities and countryside may be captured in any order, at the players leisure. Omertà suffered a massive raid shortly before the events of the game, leaving the town damaged and nearly deserted. He puts the player and his team of mercenaries in contact with a rebel movement in the northern city of Omertà, led by Miguel Cordona and a handful of his trusted advisors. When the game begins, Chivaldori has hired the player to remove Deidranna by whatever means necessary. Removing all other obstacles from her way, she soon consolidated her power and converted the nation into a totalitarian state. However, Deidranna proved to be far more than a simple pawn showing an unquenchable thirst for power, she soon framed Chivaldori for the murder of his father. In 1988, election candidate Enrico Chivaldori took a wife, Deidranna Reitman of Romania, in order to boost his popularity and consequently was victorious. "Jagged Alliance 2" takes place in the nation of Arulco, ruled until the late 1980s by a unique democratic monarchy- a monarch led the nation, but elections were held every ten years to assert their legitimacy. "Jagged Alliance 2" and the "Unfinished Business" expansion were combined in the "Jagged Alliance 2 Gold Pack", released August 6, 2002. It is the third game in the "Jagged Alliance" series, and was followed by two expansions: "Jagged Alliance 2: Unfinished Business" (2000) and "Jagged Alliance 2: Wildfire" (2004). "Jagged Alliance 2" is a tactical role-playing game for PC, released in 1999 for Windows, and later ported to Linux by Tribsoft. Requirements = Pentium 133 or better, 32 MB of RAM, 16-bit capable video card, 2x CD-ROM Genre= Tactical role-playing game, Turn-based tactics, RPG
